Painting: Landscape and Narrative

Cappadocia

Acrylic on canvas, 18"x24"

Finally, a painting in colour!! Landscape painting assignment.

I really struggled with this. Probably because the size is bigger than the previous two, and the amount of detail greater, and so I think it needs more time and more work to be properly finished. Professor suggests it isn't as compelling as my other paintings because it doesn't have the kind of mysterious light and shadow effect that I so adore and am willing to spend hours upon hours rendering. Probably true.

The painting's based off a photo I took last year in the beautiful mountainous regions of Turkey. Really cool rocks. Really cool little cave houses in the rocks, if you look closely (I wish I could have articulated these better in the paint.)

The Farm

Acrylic on canvas, 18"x24"

Halloween assignment: a dramatic scene from a horror/sci fi show. Because I am a huge nerd I chose to do a scene from the TV series Battlestar Galactica, which I love. It's kind of complicated to explain what's going on to someone not familiar with the show, but she's drugged and injured, trying to escape from a creepy hospital building filled with robots who look exactly like people. And want her to have babies.

I think the creepiness kind of speaks for itself even without context, though.

Really proud of the light and shadow in this one. It was a long painting -- easily fourteen, fifteen hours. The perspective is more than a little whacked out now that I look at it, but I don't think it matters too much. Makes it kind of disconcerting.